On Thursday, 3 April 2014 12:52:40 UTC+1, David Cantrell wrote:
On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 04:12:12AM -0700, Mark Hynes wrote:



I've long thought it unfair that buses don't have a transfer system by default.

Oyster would have been the perfect opportunity to introduce it - a single

journey limited by time, just like the trams and tubes work.



IIRC that's been a Lib Dem policy for their London Assembly members

since forever.



Someone might

need to take 2 or 3 buses to travel the distance someone else does on 1 bus,

and it's not their fault the routes don't favour them.



It's a good policy, because it gets rid of all the faff of transfer

tickets and the ripoff that results from the vast majority of passengers

not knowing about them and drivers not bothering to inform them. But I

don't buy your argument. Unless you're a child you choose where you

live. And you choose where you work. If you choose to do inconvenient

journeys that's your problem.

No, not everyone is fortunate enough to choose where they work, or where they live, or where their family, friends, shops etc are.